Facebook's latest scandals involving Cambridge Analytica and Barack Obama's campaign team allowed to break the user rules is prompting many to ponder whether deleting their Facebook account is the right move.
With so much of our lives now conducted online, and that trend only set to continue, protecting your privacy while wading through the internet is more important than ever.
The personal information of thousands of Marines, sailors and civilians, including bank account numbers, was compromised in a major data spillage emanating from U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve.
Jon E. Montroll, a 37 year old from Texas, is now facing up to 30 years in jail for perjury and obstruction of justice. The operator of Weexchange and Bitfunder is accused of repeatedly lying to the SEC under testimony in an effort cover up massive c
Elon Musk might be able to send his personal Tesla car into space, he might change the way humanity produces and stores energy, and he might even build a colony on Mars one day. However, even this real-life Iron Man apparently can't escape the reac
According to Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs, hackers have been using a zero-day exploit in Telegram to infect its users with a cryptocurrency-mining malware, so as to mine privacy-centric cryptocurrencies like Monero, Zcash, and others. On
Join us today 2/13/18 at noon EST live on Twitch as we discuss the mindset of someone who trolls. Why is trolling so bad now, especially in gaming? What can we do to evolve past this mindset?
Last year Wikileaks released documents detailing how attackers can compromise offline computers. This new study goes one step further, exposing the fallibility of Faraday cages
Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, which sold over one million devices last year, has alerted its users to a major attack vector that's recently been discovered.
A photograph posted on imageboard 4chan appears to show a leaked 21 August 2017 memorandum from the US Army Cyber Protection Brigade. The document alludes to the US Army teaming with the National Security Administration (NSA) in ongoing successful in
The Olympics have always been a geopolitical microcosm: beyond the athletic match-ups, they provide a vehicle for diplomacy and propaganda, and even, occasionally, a proxy for war. It stands to reason, then, that in 2018 they've also become a nexus o
A 15-year-old "hacktivist" who tricked AOL and Verizon customer support operators into believing he was then-CIA Director John Brennan, was able to crack into Brennan's accounts and access highly sensitive documents concerning US military and intelli
The fallout of the widespread Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities continued this week. WIRED took an in-depth look at the parallel sagas that caused four research teams to independently discover the bugs within months of each other. Dozens
Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel, something we discussed in "Why The Implications Of The Intel "Bug" Are Staggering."
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a "deep-learning" for cracking into smart phones running the Android OS which has a "99.5 percent" effective rate after only three attempts, according to a new study reported
Even if some shady character were to get hold of your smartphone, it wouldn't do them much good if they didn't know your PIN … right? Well, researchers from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have created a system that correctly guesses a
Perhaps you've been hearing strange sounds in your home--ghostly creaks and moans, random Rick Astley tunes, Alexa commands issued in someone else's voice. If so, you haven't necessarily lost your mind. Instead, if you own one of a few models of int
On the heels of Lenovo's massive $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on laptops without users' consent, Hewlett-Packard is jumping in with both feet when it comes to installing spyware on its PCs without the consumer's permission.
On the heels of Lenovo's massive $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on laptops without users' consent, Hewlett-Packard is jumping in with both feet when it comes to installing spyware on its PCs without the consumer's permission.